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F. GIZZI. DISINFECTING APPARATUS.

Patented June 28, 1898.

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FRANCIS GIZZI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

DI'SINFECTINLG APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,338, dated June 28, 1898.

Application filed September 8,1397. Serial No. 650,966. on) inodel.) a

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS GIZZI, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State'of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disinfectin g Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a disinfecting apparatus, and comprises a duplex chamber, an inclined receptacle mounted above it and constructed to receive a razor, knife, or other article to be disinfected, and means for applying a suitable disinfecting agent.

The object of the invention is the destruction of disease-germs on razors, combs, brushes, surgeons tools, and the like, and thus avoid infection or contagion by their use.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the box or casing with the implement-chamber and its support removed and the top broken away to show the channel in the cover of the chamber containing the supply of the disinfecting liquid, and Fig. 3 is a section on line 00 0c of Fig. l.

A rectangular box or casing A is provided with suitable feet a a, of a suitable ornamental form, if desired. This box is formed of any desired material and is closed, preferably, on all sides. It is divided into two compartments B B. The part or compartment 13 is for containing the disinfecting liquid, and the part or compartment 13 is to receive the residuum after the same has been used.

The compartment B has its bottom, side, and outer end Wall formed of the walls of the casing. The inner end orvertical wall is arranged aboutcentrally of thebox, but does not extend the full height thereof. The top of the compartment B is inclined and is provided with a groove or channel I), so that the sprayed substance after use againassumes a liquid form and passes from the lower end of the disinfectingchamber through an aperture or short tube in the top of the box A, along the article to be disinfected.

the groove or channel I), and is discharged into the chamber or compartment B. The top of the chamber B ispreferably inclined toward the middle of the box and at its point of juncture with the inner vertical wall of the chamber or compartment B is formed with a projecting lip, so that the liquid will be discharged clearof the vertical wall or partition. The chamber 13 is formed of the-walls of the box A and the inner vertical wall of chamber 13, and it may be provided at or near its bottom with a suitable outlet or stop-cock b for drawing off the used liquid.

The disinfecting-chamber C is connected with or forms a part of the top of the box A. It comprises a hollow casing,of elliptical or other suitable form, and it is supported on the box in an inclined position, so that after the spray is injected therein and the disinfecting agent again assumes aliquid form it willrundown the bottom of the chamber 0 through an aperture in the top of the box and into the compartment 13, as already explained.

The chamber 0 is hollow and open at both ends and the aperture through it is of a shape corresponding to the form or shape of I have shown it supported in an inclined position on the top of the b0xAin this instance by a suitable ornamental support 0', which increases in size from the lower to the upper end of the chamber 0. Any other form of support, as a simple wedge-shaped one, would answer the same purpose, it only being necessary that the chamber 0 be raised higher at one end :than the other, so that after the spray is used the resulting liquid will run down and be carried off into the chamber or compartment B, provided to receive the same.

An ordinary atomizer D is used for inject ing the sprayinto the disinfecting-chamber. Suitable provision is made in the top of the box A to receive the feed-tube cl of the atomizer, which extends into the disinfecting liquid contained in a chamber or compartment l3. Thenozzle D of the atomizer is inserted in the aperture in the lower end of the disin footing-chambers O at a suitable point, and

the spray is injected therethrough and over i and around the tool or implement contained therein in a well-known manner.

The box A is of any suitable or convenient form. It may be rectangular, oval, or any other configuration, dependent somewhat on the particular article or articles to be disinfected. The top of the box may be hinged so that access thereto may be readily obtained for cleaning the same, and a small flap or cover may be provided at the upper end of the disinfecting-chamber, if desired.

After a razor, knife, comb, brush, or other instrument or article has been subjected to the spray in the disinfecting-chamber it is removed therefrom and bathed or washed. A good disinfecting liquid consists of water, potash, and thymol in suitable proportions e. 9., commercial potash, eight grams; thymol, two grams, and water, one thousand grams, is well adapted for this purpose, although any disinfecting agent may be used. After the tool, implement, or article has been disinfected it is washed in diluted alcohol contained in a sponge, absorbent cotton, or other suitable and convenient means.

The use of the apparatus will be apparentfrom the foregoing description.

The article to be disinfected is inserted in the opening or aperture in the upper end of the chamber 0. It is then sprayed with the disinfecting liquid, which as it resumes the liquid form runs down the inclined bottom of the chamber 0, through the top of the box A, and down the groove or channel in the top of the compartment 13, whence it is discharged into the tank or compartment B, from whence it may be drawn off by means-of a stop-cock or other suitable appliance.

The whole apparatus is supported on suitable feet. In the drawings I have shown these feet in the form of a lions claw.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A disinfecting apparatus for razors, sur

geons tools, and the like comprising a casing having within itself the supply-chamber and the waste-chamber, a disinfecting-chamber mounted upon said casing and inclined longitudinally thereon to return the Waste liquid to said waste-chamber, and an atomizer also mounted on the casing and having its feedtube connected to the supply-chamber and its discharge-nozzle extended into the lower end of said disinfecting-chamber, substantially as described.

- 2. A disinfecting apparatus for razors, surgeons tools and the like, comprising a casing containing within itself a supply-chamber and a Waste-chamber, a longitudinallyinclined disinfecting-chamber mounted on said casin g and having means for closing its upperend, a return duct or channel inclined reversely to said disinfecting-chamber and arranged to receive from the lower end of the disinfectr ing-chamber and to discharge to the wastechamber, and an atomizer situated contiguous to the lower end of said disinfecting-chamber, substantially as described.

3. A disinfecting apparatus for razors, sur geons tools, and the like comprising a box or casing having a hinged cover and provided within itself with the supply and waste chambers, the supply-chamber having a channeled orgrooved top,adisinfecting-chambermounted on the hinged cover and arranged with its lower end to discharge the waste to the groove or channel, and a suitable atomizer connected to the supply-chamber and arranged to discharge into the disinfecting-chainber, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS GIZZI.

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EU GENIO PIANTIERI, MICHELE D. POALA. 

